You feel lost because you lack purpose.
You don’t know what problem you’re solving. You don’t know what goal you’re pursuing. You don’t know your part in a whole that’s greater than yourself.
"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose." —Dolly Parton
Your mind is conditioned to focus on the goals society assigned to you. Your path is already known. Go to school, get a job, retire. You end up dragging your feet through life and getting bored because you don’t care about those things. You fill your boredom with laziness and pleasure instead of building toward your own goal.
List of life changing things you should be doing, but find them difficult to do:
- Read more
- Do hard stuff
- Exercise daily
- Eat less carbs
- Get rid of sugar
- Build a business
- Start an investment
- Long focused work
- Stop procrastinating
- Reduce social media
- Complete the course
- Respect different opinions
- Make the difficult phone call
Let’s say you will live for 100 years. If you’re lucky. The average life expectancy in the world is only 72 years (around 3,700 weeks). It may look like a long time, but it’s not. And if you are a 30-year-old, you have already spent 1,500 weeks.
You need self awareness to know that we don’t have as much time as we think we have.
You should make the best use of the time we are given. You already know that and have been told that thousands of times, but do you make the best use of your time? Do you love the things that you do? Are you around with the people you love?
Life is short for doing the things you hate or not doing the things you want to do. The regret will be huge when you’re old. Imagine you’re almost 80, looking back at things and wishing you did something differently. You lived a life how you wanted, not how others wanted. You will regret all the moments you wasted being lazy, sitting on a couch watching T.V. for no reason, spending hours daily scrolling social media with no purpose.
"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" — Epictetus
The Magic In 1-2 Hours Of Focus
You can drastically change your life in 3-6 months with 1 hour a day of pure focus
Most people underestimate how fast life can change.
If you gave yourself just 1 hour a day of focused action—for 3 to 6 months—you could rebuild your life from scratch.
But here’s the truth: The people who turn their lives around aren’t “lucky.”
They just stopped doing what kept them stuck.
They dropped the video games, the late night Netflix, the endless scrolling, the cheap dopamine—and picked up discipline, skills, and vision.
It’s not magic. It’s math. You cut what drains you and double down on what builds you. If you're in your 20s, now is the time to lay the foundation for the next decade.
In 2023 I dedicated hours to gain knowledge in Coaching and Career guidance.
I acquired the skills and knowledge to familiarize clients with the Career Navigation experience, use Coaching Agreements and Career Service Plans, identified professional and ethical standards, and used human-centered approaches in Career Coaching and Navigating.
Few years down the line over 500 creators have passed through my hands. That's some achievement!!
Today we launch the Skillembassy community for individuals who are ready to stop guessing and start achieving their goals.
Live a purposeful life.
Hit the gym and train your body, start a low-risk online business to learn high income skills, read daily and train your mind for clarity, follow creators who live the life you want, build, post, ship—focus on a better future.
These aren’t motivational quotes. They’re survival tactics. The world rewards creators, thinkers, and builders. Not passive consumers.
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." —Calvin Coolidge
Avoid mediocrity like it's the plague.
Because one day you’ll wake up at 40 and wish you had done it earlier.
How To Discover Your Purpose
The purpose of life is to do meaningful work, when you want and where you want.
There are only 3 kinds of people when it comes to having direction in life.
1) People who don't know what they would like to do. 2) People who know what they would like to do but don't do it. 3) People who know what they would like to do and do it.
The third kind of people know themselves, possess strong passion, grow in areas that help them move closer to their purpose, and do what they were created to do.
If you are confused on what you want, make that your highest priority.
Experiment with everything you can imagine. New jobs, new skills, new interests, new places, new people until you find the one you can't pull yourself away from.
You are bored because you don't have a goal that demands you to acquire new knowledge, learn the skills to solve the challenges life presents you.
You are anxious because your current knowledge and experience is limited to solve the problems facing you.
You need to pursue new information, learn new skills in order to operate at the level the challenges you face demands.
Life becomes interesting when you can move up the level of personal development by solving problems and unlocking the next quest.
Reinvent Yourself
You are currently the product of your past habits and the expectations of others.
If you want a different future, you must become a different person.
Most people treat change like a massive, daunting mountain. They wait for the 'perfect moment' to start, which never comes. But change isn't a grand, singular event—it’s a compounding interest. If you want to reinvent your life, you have to stop looking at the years ahead and start looking at the 60 minutes in front of you.
Here are 3 basic actions that will lead to transformation:
1) Map out your ideal future in as much detail as possible. 2) Throw yourself into a new physical and digital environment. Drown yourself in knowledge & potential. 3) Stick with the discomfort. Resist the urge to retreat to your old comfortable ways.
The plan is to move. Move out. Move on. Move up. Move smarter.
You don't want to stay stuck in the same situation forever.
Devour your old-self and focus on building your new self.
You have to break new ground.
Get into the habit of stepping out of your comfort zone.
- Read more books
- Start working out
- Choose healthier foods
Build and max all areas of your life.
Effortless Productivity
One hour of deep work, repeated every day for a year on a meaningful goal, will take you further than most people who spend all day busy but never build anything that truly matters.
The biggest trap of the 21st century is distraction. You wake up and immediately hand your attention to notifications, emails, social media, and other people's priorities. By the time you finally work on your own goals, your best energy is already gone. Most people are consistent but on the wrong things.
Build a project.
One that you choose to build. One that forces you to learn something new. One that's just challenging enough to fulfill you.
Most people lose their zest for life because the only projects they work on are those their boss, teacher, or society assigned to them. Nothing will bring you fulfillment than pursuing your own goals.
At that point, work no longer feels like work. Most people hide behind busywork when all they really need is a skill and a project to build.
The work makes them "look" busy to other people. But deep down they know they're frauds and are fooling themselves.
Protect the first hour of your day: You need to dedicate the first hour to lever moving activities that will steer your life towards the direction you want:
You don't need to work longer. You need bursts of focused intensity "work".
Thanks for reading.
-Patrick.